I certainly did and unfortunately while you had a great teacher in regards to algorithms you never had one that taught the different between personal experience and everything else. Another good teacher along the way should have taught you personal experience does not define the norm.
I have a few friends who have been down that way. It seems like if your don't want to be looked at funny (to say the least) black might be a bad color to chose.
We're literally talking about different decades though and it seems like you're not talking about a proper teacher on the subject. An enthusiast can be amazing but they can't be counted on for standard education.
A classic problem with computer science educators. If you're good in your field your earning vastly less money teaching it than working it. Hopefully as the field matures more we get more semi-retirees teaching more but until then this will be a huge problem until we raise teacher's wages.
I remember my first CS-ish teachers in high school in the 90's. They meant well but didn't have a fucking clue.
I'm usually not one to complain about slashdot posts (in fact I'm more likely to get irritated by others) but lately we've had some awfully redundant posts.
I was a real kid of the 90's. I hit my teens on the early part and ended them on the later part. I remember taking early high school webdesign and the cool thing to do was to create your own personal web page. Myspace (Facebook's precursor) wasn't even a thing yet so having your own web space was elite stuff (especially since it had to be entirely coded from scratch) and geocities helped that happened.
It's better now that the internet isn't such an elitist space but a lot of culture I really do miss was lost in it becoming as such. I have very heavy nerd nostalgia for all of those Geocities sites.
"No I didn't, I mentioned the UK's much higher incidence of knife crime than the US's, my point being ifyou take guns away, people will just use something else, and also not be as afraid that their victim might actually be able to defend themself."
Please supply me with a statistic because I completely doubt your claim.
"All you libs ever talk about is gun homocide rates like thats the only issue here."
I have never, at any point in this conversation, talked about gun homicide rates. I have always been talking about regular old homicide rate. You're being retarded and making shit up here.
"Please just go ahead and admit that you simply can't understand the whole second amendment."
No, despite your complete miss-framing of what I've been talking about I understand the true intent of the 2nd amendment. Protection from our own government is a misguided context given the fact that we live in a democracy and given the modern era we live in. Meanwhile, America's attachment to guns is demonstratively leading to higher murder rates.
Yes you did right here "It really helps to only count homicide victims if someone is convicted."
And as for the rest, nice questioning of a lone individual statistic. I'm not going to waste my time reading through that slog of text because even if London has always had the highest murder rate ever (which I doubt it has) it does nothing to disprove the massive statistical fact that first world nations with stronger gun control laws then our own have lower homicide and gun violence rates than ours. You're chasing after outlier data.
No, you're giving me statistical outliers and claimed that they mean something despite the very obvious contrary trend. It's a statistical constant that first world countries with stronger gun control than ours also have homicide rates 5 times less than ours on average. You've mentioned London's briefly higher homicide rate than New York's and some how think that's meaningful even after it has been pointed out that up until recently London's homicide has been drastically lower than New York's for at least half a century. A weird statistical blip does not disprove a massive statistical trend.
If I sound upset it's not what you're suggesting. It's that I'm talking to an idiot that doesn't seem to understand what statistics even are, let alone how they work.
Meanwhile Catholics are the most likely to support liberal ideals of all of the major Christian branches in the US. It's great you can point to a few individual Christians whose ideals also happen to match up with the rest of our country's Christian conservatives but that doesnt mean anything.
Yeah, like I said, you're being absurd and claiming this time is some how different from all the other times racist scare mongers claimed immigrants were going to ruin the native population. They always end up wrong but they keep popping spewing their nonsense.
You sound like one of those idiots from the 18th and 19th centuries that claimed that Catholics and their notoriously large families would take over America. Here we are a century later and all of those large families are as American as fuck.
"Not all homicides by firearm are unjustified yet they are counted for purposes of firearms related violence. Law enforcement uses firearms to kill attackers. Civilians lawfully defending themselves and others use firearms to kill attackers."
Your ignorance is astounding here
homicide hämsd/ nounNORTH AMERICAN the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
Where did you ever get it in your head that self defense was factored into homicide rates? Furthermore, even if that completely false assumption were true it would also be true for every other country we are compared to so we would still look incredibly bad. You look bad here either way.
"If firearms are the cause of the high homicide rate in the US, then how does that explain a similarly high rate of homicides committed with knives? And committed with blunt objects? And strangulations?"
Once again you have been found to be completely ignorant on this subject. The US has a homicide rate roughly 5 times higher than any other first world nation. Please note, this is not a gun violence rate, this is a regular old homicide rate which includes knives, guns and any other means of intentionally killing some one. Please feel free to look this up. Here, you're just making shit up or reading way to much far right news.
Seriously, please stick to subjects you have some understanding of and try not to vote because you clearly don't have the proper wherewithal to make the type of adult decisions that policy making on these subjects demands.
Final Note: I have no problem with people who have contrary opinions to me on gun ownership because I truly do regard it as a complex topic. What I do have a problem with is massively ignorant people wading into an adult conversation.
This is retarded. You're trying to use a lone comparison between two individual cities to refute the massive differences between homicide rates in the US and other first world nations with stricter gun control laws (which is virtually all of them). It's great you've found a single deviating statistic but the incredibly obvious trend is the other way.
What a truly dumb fear to have. Europe isn't in danger of turning "Islamist" any more than America's culture has ever been truly endangered by any of the massive waves of immigrants we've had. Within three generations the vast majority turn native. It's pure ignorance to think this time it will be different.
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I certainly did and unfortunately while you had a great teacher in regards to algorithms you never had one that taught the different between personal experience and everything else. Another good teacher along the way should have taught you personal experience does not define the norm.
I have a few friends who have been down that way. It seems like if your don't want to be looked at funny (to say the least) black might be a bad color to chose.
We're literally talking about different decades though and it seems like you're not talking about a proper teacher on the subject. An enthusiast can be amazing but they can't be counted on for standard education.
She's over at my place and judging by slashdot number I'm your dad.
A classic problem with computer science educators. If you're good in your field your earning vastly less money teaching it than working it. Hopefully as the field matures more we get more semi-retirees teaching more but until then this will be a huge problem until we raise teacher's wages.
I remember my first CS-ish teachers in high school in the 90's. They meant well but didn't have a fucking clue.
I'm usually not one to complain about slashdot posts (in fact I'm more likely to get irritated by others) but lately we've had some awfully redundant posts.
In this case https://news.slashdot.org/stor... seems awfully too similar to this post.
I was a real kid of the 90's. I hit my teens on the early part and ended them on the later part. I remember taking early high school webdesign and the cool thing to do was to create your own personal web page. Myspace (Facebook's precursor) wasn't even a thing yet so having your own web space was elite stuff (especially since it had to be entirely coded from scratch) and geocities helped that happened.
It's better now that the internet isn't such an elitist space but a lot of culture I really do miss was lost in it becoming as such. I have very heavy nerd nostalgia for all of those Geocities sites.
"And in Europe, abortion kills more than half of children conceived. It's just as bad in the United States among African Americans."
I'm calling total bullshit. Let's see some proper numbers.
Irrelevant.
Also your dumb coffee sig is being cut off making it even dumber
"No I didn't, I mentioned the UK's much higher incidence of knife crime than the US's, my point being ifyou take guns away, people will just use something else, and also not be as afraid that their victim might actually be able to defend themself."
Please supply me with a statistic because I completely doubt your claim.
"All you libs ever talk about is gun homocide rates like thats the only issue here."
I have never, at any point in this conversation, talked about gun homicide rates. I have always been talking about regular old homicide rate. You're being retarded and making shit up here.
"Please just go ahead and admit that you simply can't understand the whole second amendment."
No, despite your complete miss-framing of what I've been talking about I understand the true intent of the 2nd amendment. Protection from our own government is a misguided context given the fact that we live in a democracy and given the modern era we live in. Meanwhile, America's attachment to guns is demonstratively leading to higher murder rates.
"Did I say anything about prosecution?"
Yes you did right here "It really helps to only count homicide victims if someone is convicted."
And as for the rest, nice questioning of a lone individual statistic. I'm not going to waste my time reading through that slog of text because even if London has always had the highest murder rate ever (which I doubt it has) it does nothing to disprove the massive statistical fact that first world nations with stronger gun control laws then our own have lower homicide and gun violence rates than ours. You're chasing after outlier data.
Sure, the UK court system doesn't prosecute homicides. Fucking idiot...
It's popularity is credited with speeding up cdrom adoption on PCs by several years. That alone is pretty frick'n influential
No, you're giving me statistical outliers and claimed that they mean something despite the very obvious contrary trend. It's a statistical constant that first world countries with stronger gun control than ours also have homicide rates 5 times less than ours on average. You've mentioned London's briefly higher homicide rate than New York's and some how think that's meaningful even after it has been pointed out that up until recently London's homicide has been drastically lower than New York's for at least half a century. A weird statistical blip does not disprove a massive statistical trend.
If I sound upset it's not what you're suggesting. It's that I'm talking to an idiot that doesn't seem to understand what statistics even are, let alone how they work.
Meanwhile Catholics are the most likely to support liberal ideals of all of the major Christian branches in the US. It's great you can point to a few individual Christians whose ideals also happen to match up with the rest of our country's Christian conservatives but that doesnt mean anything.
What? So Europeans are being wiped out by diseases? I feel like you're not making the point that you were trying for here.
Yeah, like I said, you're being absurd and claiming this time is some how different from all the other times racist scare mongers claimed immigrants were going to ruin the native population. They always end up wrong but they keep popping spewing their nonsense.
You sound like one of those idiots from the 18th and 19th centuries that claimed that Catholics and their notoriously large families would take over America. Here we are a century later and all of those large families are as American as fuck.
"Not all homicides by firearm are unjustified yet they are counted for purposes of firearms related violence. Law enforcement uses firearms to kill attackers. Civilians lawfully defending themselves and others use firearms to kill attackers."
Your ignorance is astounding here
homicide
hämsd/
nounNORTH AMERICAN
the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
Where did you ever get it in your head that self defense was factored into homicide rates? Furthermore, even if that completely false assumption were true it would also be true for every other country we are compared to so we would still look incredibly bad. You look bad here either way.
"If firearms are the cause of the high homicide rate in the US, then how does that explain a similarly high rate of homicides committed with knives? And committed with blunt objects? And strangulations?"
Once again you have been found to be completely ignorant on this subject. The US has a homicide rate roughly 5 times higher than any other first world nation. Please note, this is not a gun violence rate, this is a regular old homicide rate which includes knives, guns and any other means of intentionally killing some one. Please feel free to look this up. Here, you're just making shit up or reading way to much far right news.
Seriously, please stick to subjects you have some understanding of and try not to vote because you clearly don't have the proper wherewithal to make the type of adult decisions that policy making on these subjects demands.
Final Note: I have no problem with people who have contrary opinions to me on gun ownership because I truly do regard it as a complex topic. What I do have a problem with is massively ignorant people wading into an adult conversation.
This is retarded. You're trying to use a lone comparison between two individual cities to refute the massive differences between homicide rates in the US and other first world nations with stricter gun control laws (which is virtually all of them). It's great you've found a single deviating statistic but the incredibly obvious trend is the other way.
What a truly dumb fear to have. Europe isn't in danger of turning "Islamist" any more than America's culture has ever been truly endangered by any of the massive waves of immigrants we've had. Within three generations the vast majority turn native. It's pure ignorance to think this time it will be different.
Sorry, but I'm not following. Why don't you make an actual point.
Nice, let's compare a mostly rural state to one of our biggest urban areas on homicide rates. That's just terribly impressive on your part.
If ones "common sense" isn't supported by evidence then it's not "common sense". It's stupidity.
Right.... Far right news much?